scholarly journals Analysis of Policies to Protect the Health of Urban Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Thailand: A Qualitative Study and Delphi Survey

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (20) ◽  
pp. 10566
Author(s):  
Sataporn Julchoo ◽  
Mathudara Phaiyarom ◽  
Pigunkaew Sinam ◽  
Watinee Kunpeuk ◽  
Nareerut Pudpong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Delphi Survey ◽  
Work Permit ◽  
Urban Refugees ◽  
Inclusive Policy ◽  
The Government ◽  
Policy Direction ◽  
The Right ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

The health of urban refugees and asylum seekers (URAS) in Bangkok has been neglected and health policies for USAR have not materialized. This study aimed to explore the views of stakeholders on policies to protect URAS well-being in Thailand. This study conducted a mixed-methods approach comprising both in-depth interviews and Delphi survey. The interview findings revealed six main themes: (1) the government position on URAS; (2) opinions on Thailand becoming a party of the 1951 Refugee Convention; (3) NGOs on health promotion for URAS; (4) options on health insurance management for URAS; (5) working potential of URAS; and (6) uncertainty of future life plans for URAS. The Delphi survey showed that URAS should have the right to acquire a work permit and be enrolled in the public insurance scheme managed by the Ministry of Public Health. Moreover, the ideology of national security was more influential than the concept of human rights. The ambiguity of the central authorities’ policy direction to take care of URAS creates haphazard legal interpretations. The Delphi survey findings suggested the need for a more inclusive policy for URAS, however actual policy implementation requires further research on policy feasibility and acceptance by the wider public.

scholarly journals The expected well-being of urban refugees and asylum-seekers in Johannesburg

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Talita Greyling
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Refugee Status ◽  
Urban Refugees ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Forced Migrants ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
Asylum Seekers And Refugees

The influx of asylum-seekers and refugees from across Africa into democratic South Africa has increased significantly. The aim of this paper is to determine the factors that influences the expect well-being of this unique group. Expected well-being is an important determinant of both the decision to migrate and the choice of a country of destination. Knowledge about this determinant therefore informs refugee policies. The results show that only a few of the factors found in the literature explaining the expected well-being of voluntary migrants also explain the expected well-being of forced migrants. However, a number of factors found in the literature that explain the subjective well-being and well-being in general of refugees and asylum-seekers also went towards explaining the expected well-being of this group. These factors include: government assistance, culture, the time spent in South Africa, economic factors, crime, refugee status, reasons for leaving the home countries and the number of people staying in a house in the receiving country. The findings of this study emphasise the differences between forced and voluntary migrants and highlight the factors that influence the expected well-being of forced migrants. These in turn shed light on migration decisions and the choice of destination countries.

scholarly journals A Proposal for Malaysia’s Asylum Act

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-81
Author(s):  
Hench Goh ◽  
James Leong ◽  
Adam Haris Othman ◽  
Yee Ching Kho ◽  
Chung Yin Wong
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
International Protection ◽  
Practical Solution ◽  
Legal Principles ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Right ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
Asylum Seekers And Refugees ◽  
Poor Management

Asylum is granted to people in search for international protection from persecution or serious harm in their own country. The right to asylum for refugees in Malaysia is far from realization and in dire need of a practical solution. Due to the lack of a proper enactment of Asylum Act, asylum seekers are to deal with denial of basic rights. Asylum seekers are also denied of education and healthcare due to high cost since these are not provided by the government. This article discusses the need for a proper enactment of Asylum Act in Malaysia in relation to the rising numbers of asylum seekers and refugees in the country. In this research, a comparative analysis between Malaysia’s existing laws dealing with asylum and the law of Australia, United Kingdom, Indonesia, and European Union was carried out. It was found that these countries have developed their legal framework for asylum considerably and could legally accommodate the influx of refugees into their respective countries, in contrast to Malaysia’s increasingly poor management of the refugees and asylum-seekers. The study suggests the possibility for the adoption of recommended legal principles from those countries into the proposed Malaysian Asylum Act.

The Politics of Paternalism

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Le Grand ◽  
Bill New
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
The State ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right ◽  
Better Than

This chapter examines the politics of paternalism. It first considers the question of whether the government can do better than the individual, outlining a set of justifications for government paternalism and showing how the state can intervene to improve the well-being of its citizens. It then discusses possible ways in which the government could be held to account to ensure that, in its paternalistic interventions aimed at improving its citizens' well-being, it does actually pursue the “right” agenda. It argues that the government can indeed raise the well-being of individuals who suffer from reasoning failure, even when allowance is made for possible reasoning failure among those individuals who constitute the government. However, democratic mechanisms must be put in place to ensure that the latter do not pursue their own agenda and turn the paternalistic state into an instrument of authoritarianism.

scholarly journals Biopolitics, borders, and refugee camps: exercising sovereign power over nonmembers of the state†

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Zeveleva
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
The State ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Sovereign Power ◽  
The Government ◽  
Treat All ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
The Relationship

This article addresses the relationship between the concepts of national identity and biopolitics by examining a border-transit camp for repatriates, refugees, and asylum seekers in Germany. Current studies of detention spaces for migrants have drawn heavily on Agamben's reflection on the “camp” and “homo sacer,” where the camp is analyzed as a space in a permanent state of exception, in which the government exercises sovereign power over the refugee as the ultimate biopolitical subject. But what groups of people can end up at a camp, and does the government treat all groups in the same way? This article examines the German camp for repatriates, refugees, and asylum seekers as a space where the state's borders are demarcated and controlled through practices of bureaucratic and narrative differentiation among various groups of people. The author uses the concept of detention space to draw a theoretical link between national identity and biopolitics, and demonstrates how the sovereign's practices of control and differentiation at the camp construct German national identity through defining “nonmembers” of the state. The study draws on ethnographic fieldwork at the Friedland border transit camp and on a discourse analysis of texts produced at the camp or for the camp.

scholarly journals Research into the psychological well-being of young refugees

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 60-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Winnie Lau ◽  
Trang Thomas
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
Political Opinion ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The Status ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

Interest in the psychological well-being of refugees and asylum seekers has steadily grown in recent years. Latest estimates indicate there are 32.9 million people of concern to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2006). A refugee is defined as being in that position because of a well-founded fear of persecution due to race, religion, nationality, social group or political opinion, and who is consequently outside and unable to return to his or her country. The status of ‘refugee’ is contrasted with that of a person seeking asylum, whose experiences may be similar but who is not formally determined in the same way.

scholarly journals KEBIJAKAN PENGELOLAAN PAJAK DAERAH DALAM KERANGKA PENYELENGGARAAN OTONOMI DAERAH (ANALISA TERHADAP IMPLEMENTASI WEWENANG PENGELOLAAN PAJAK DAERAH OLEH PEMERINTAH PUSAT DAN PEMERINTAH DAERAH)

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kadar Pamuji
Keyword(s):  
Local Authority ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Local Autonomy ◽  
Regional Autonomy ◽  
Local Taxes ◽  
Tax Management ◽  
Management Policies ◽  
The Government ◽  
Policy Direction ◽  
The Right

Regional autonomy is the right, authority, and duty to regulate autonomous regions and manage their own affairs and interests of local communities in accordance with the legislation. One of which is owned by the local authority is the authority to impose taxes. Supporting local autonomy, the local tax management policies cannot be separated from the regional autonomy policy direction outlined by the Central Government. Local Government as implementing regional autonomy in the management of local taxes tends to be subject to the rules specified by the Central Government. Changes of local tax management policies show that the government has no found raw format in the management of local taxes management yet. Management of local taxes does not show the direction to the actual implementation of regional autonomy due to dominant intervention by the central government.Key words : policy, local taxes, local autonomy

scholarly journals An Integrated Approach to Redistribution: Issues of Policy, Economics and Information

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Mark Prebble
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The State ◽  
Philosophical Foundations ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right

<p>This thesis considers how best to administer redistribution policies. It focuses particularly on the information needed to assess relative circumstances, the implications of the government collecting such information, and processes by which the appropriate information may be assembled and assessed. In New Zealand, as with many other OECD nations, the Government's redistribution policies are administered through a range of different agencies, with duplication in some areas and gaps in others. An integrated approach to redistribution systems may offer a means to improve equity and efficiency. Part One discusses the assessment of relative well-being, and adopts the choice set as the intellectual device for this purpose. The time period for the assessment of income is examined in detail, with the conclusion that a long period should be used except where the individual is constrained to operate under a short time horizon. A new concept of "bankability" is developed as a means of identifying those operating under such constraints. Part Two uses the philosophical foundations of the value of privacy to develop a new statement of the right to privacy, such that everyone should be protected against the requirement to divulge information, unless that information is the "business" of another party. A view on the business of the state depends on one's ideology of the state. Since it is generally accepted in New Zealand in the late twentieth century that the state has a role in redistribution, the state has some right to collect information for that purpose. However, the rights of the state are moderated by the existence of a common law tradition of respect for individuals. A set of criteria for evaluating redistribution systems is devised in Part Three. These criteria, which include consideration of the information to be collected, individual control over personal information, and administrative simplicity, are then used to identify significant weaknesses in the systems currently used in New Zealand. The main problems identified are the collection of inadequate information, duplication, and complex institutional structures; the main virtue of the current systems is that information provided is only used for the purpose for which it was provided. An alternative approach is outlined which would address the problems while retaining the current protection of privacy interests. This thesis is a mix of inter-disciplinary academic enquiry and policy development. Part One is an amalgam of economic and philosophical approaches, Part Two involves philosophy and politics, and Part Three applies the theoretical considerations to issues of public administration.</p>

scholarly journals A cross sectional study of unmet need for health services amongst urban refugees and asylum seekers in Thailand in comparison with Thai population, 2019

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
RAPEEPONG SUPHANCHAIMAT ◽  
Pigunkaew Sinam ◽  
Mathudara Phaiyarom ◽  
Nareerut Pudpong ◽  
Sataporn Julchoo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Unmet Need ◽  
Thai Population ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Urban Refugees ◽  
Multivariable Logistic Regression ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
Self Reporting Questionnaire

Abstract BackgroundAlthough the Thai government has introduced policies to promote the health of migrants, it is still the case that urban refugees and asylum seekers (URAS) seem to be neglected. This study aimed to explore the degree of healthcare access through the perspective of unmet need in URAS, relative to the Thai population.MethodsA cross-sectional survey, using a self-reporting questionnaire adapted from the Thai Health and Welfare Survey (HWS), was performed in late 2019, with 181 URAS completing the survey. The respondents were were randomly selected from the roster of the Bangkok Refugee Center. The data of the URAS survey were combined with data of the Thai population (n=2,941) from the HWS. Unmet need for health services was defined as the status of needing healthcare in the past twelve months but failing to receive it. Bivariate analysis was conducted to explore the demographic and unmet need difference between URAS and Thais. Multivariable logistic regression and mixed-effects (ME) model were performed to determine factors associated with unmet need.ResultsOverall, URAS were young, less educated and living in more economically deprived households, compared with Thais. About 98% of URAS were uninsured by any of the existing health insurance schemes. The prevalence of unmet need among URAS was significantly higher than among Thais in both outpatient (OP) and inpatient (IP) services (54.1% versus 2.1% and 28.0% versus 2.1%, respectively). Being uninsured showed the strongest association with unmet need, especially for OP care. The association between insurance status and unmet need was more pronounced in the ME model, relative to multivariable logistic regression. URAS migrating from Arab nations suffered from unmet need to a greater extent, compared with those originating from non-Arab nations.ConclusionThe prevalence of unmet need in URAS was drastically high, relative to the prevalence in Thais. Factors correlated with unmet need included advanced age, lower educational achievement, and, most evidently, being uninsured. Policy makers should consider a policy option to enrol URAS in the nationwide public insurance scheme to create health security for Thai society.

scholarly journals MODEL PEMBERDAYAAN KOMUNITAS ADAT TERPENCIL DALAM MENGENTASKAN KEMISKINAN DI KABUPATEN KEPULAUAN MERANTI

REFORMASI ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-227
Author(s):  
Rd Siti Sofro Sidiq
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Initial Assessment ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Third Stage ◽  
Empowerment Model ◽  
The Government ◽  
Policy Direction ◽  
Remote Indigenous Community ◽  
The Right ◽  
Social Empowerment

Tujuan dari program pemberdayaan ialah membuka aksesibilitas bagi masyarakat miskin untuk mereka bisa memanfaatkan perlindungan dan jaminan sosial yang diberikan pemerintah untuk keberlangsungan hidup mereka, kemiskinan juga terjadi akibat dari keterbatasan kebijakan, akses dan pendidikan sehingga membuat masyarakat mengalami kesulitan untuk mencukupi kehidupannya sehari-hari. Pemberdayaan di Komunitas Adat Terpencil memiliki tujuan untuk membuat model arah kebijakan antara pusat, provinsi dan daerah untuk bisa saling bersinergi sesuai dengan identifikasi setiap daerah, sehingga program-program tepat sasaran dan bisa mengentaskan kemiskinan. Motode penelitian yang digunakan ialah kualitatif deskriptif dengan pengumpulan data secara studi literatur, wawancara, dokumentasi, dan FGD sehingga mendapatkan informasi yang lebih konkrit. Hasil penelitiannya adalah model pemberdayaan sosial yang tepat untuk mengetaskan kemiskinan di Kabupaten Kepulauan Meranti membutuhkan beberapa tahapan. Tahapan pertama pemetaan sosial, tahapan kedua penjajagan awal dan tahap ketiga studi kelayakan, semua tahapan tersebut harus dilalui untuk mendapatkan model yang tepat dalam pemberdayaan Komunitas Adat Terpencil yang lebih tepat sasaran.Abstract: The purpose of the empowerment program is to open accessibility for the poor so that they can take advantage of the protection and social security provided by the government for their survival, poverty also occurs as a result of limited policies, access and education so that it makes it difficult for people to fulfill their daily lives. Empowerment in Remote Indigenous Communities has the aim of creating a model for policy direction between the central, provincial and regional levels so that they can work together in accordance with the identification of each region so that programs are right on target and can alleviate poverty. The research method used is descriptive qualitative by collecting data by means of literature studies, interviews, documentation, FGDs so as to get more concrete information. The result of the research is that the right social empowerment model to incite poverty in the Meranti Islands district requires several stages such as the first stage of social mapping, the second stage of the initial assessment and the third stage of a feasibility study, all of these stages must be passed to get the right model for empowering remote indigenous communities. more on target.Keywords: Empowerment; Model; Remote Indigenous Community; Poverty

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